Are you looking for movies and TV shows to show your children modeling healthy masculinity and gender equality, and that feature positive male role models or promote caring versions of masculinity? We’ve curated these movie and TV show titles for parents and children to help with just that.

For adults: 

• Close
• Ted Lasso
• This is Us
• Beginners
• October Sky
• I Love You, Man
• Feminist in Cell Block Y
• Good Will Hunting
• The Mask You Live In
• Beyond Men and Masculinity
• Tough Guise 1 & 2
• Wrestling with Manhood
• C’mon C’mon
• Sweet Magnolias
• Shrinking
• Mr. Corman
• Barbie

On Ted Lasso:

“Ted leads with empathy, vulnerability, and humor, showing us what healthy masculinity can look like. He cries. He apologizes. He listens. And yet he still commands respect. In a media landscape full of macho antiheroes, Ted Lasso is a breath of fresh air—proof that being a good man doesn’t mean being the toughest guy in the room. It means being the truest version of yourself.”

For adolescents and young adults:

• Boyhood
• Twenty Century Women
• Billy Elliott
• Sex Education

For children:

• Nimona
• Coco
• The Intouchables
• Up
• Cars
• Finding Nemo
• Inside Out 
• Bluey
• Princes(s)